Let's face facts... your internet is probably fast enough. Oh, if you're hosting a gaggle of teens all streaming their own shows it might bog down but most people today can get 100Mbps service to the home if they're willing to pay, and most of
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These are TNC connectors. There's a slight possibility you've seen them before but you're probably more familiar with other connectors like the F and RCA connector you see all the time. It's used for high-frequency antennas, so you might have seen it if you have a router with replaceable antennas. Otherwise it just might look totally unfamiliar to you.
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Not a lot to this one, other than the obvious: Always always turn off the circuit breaker when you're doing anything electrical. Turning off the switch is not enough. Some homes are wired to pass electricity through an outlet even if the switch is off, by passing a second "hot" wire through. You can short out other things in your home and more importantly hurt yourself!

If you're not sure which breaker goes to which outlets, it's a good time to get out there to the breaker box and figure it out. It's easy if you have a friend inside the house who can help you, that way you don't have to run back and forth all the time.

Even simple repairs can turn into a nightmare unless you flip that breaker... listen to your friendly blogger, he's been zapped once or twice and it wasn't fun!

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Some would say there is an art to knowing when it's time to get the next big thing, whether it's a cell phone, a DVR, or some other piece of "must-have" gear. You scour the web for rumors, you look at obscure fan sites, and you get to know the trade show schedules
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Everyone loves the DIRECTV Genie 2. One tower takes the place of a DVR, internet connection kit, dish power supply and wireless bridge. It's an all-in-one solution that gives you TV in up to 7 rooms (with clients or smart TVs) including up to two rooms of 4K.

But folks, it really really wants to be connected to the internet.
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I had to look it up, but Windows 10 was released in late July, 2015. Wow, how time flies. Microsoft called it "the last version of Windows" and they seem to be keeping to that -- despite a few updates that largely appealed to fringe users, they've kept the operating system incredibly, totally
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Bad news if you were hoping that Verizon would beat out AT&T as the best overall communications provider. According to LightReading the company is nowhere near ready to launch a live streaming TV service, and its cable TV service is floundering.

Be honest... is your password still the name of your high school crush? If you're like most of us you still use a password from your dial-up modem days, especially for sites like Amazon where you've been shopping for a long time.

Marketing is a wonderful thing, isn't it? It's the art of giving you just enough information to make the wrong impression. There are marketers out there who willingly trade on what you think you know to make you buy something they don't even understand.

Take the curious case of megabits, megabytes, and mebibytes. Mebibytes you say? What the frack is
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Remember when you used to make mix tapes? Then you got a CD burner and you could burn CD's. That was really cool, right? You moved on, and now you share Spotify channels, but you might still have a bunch of old burned media, stuff you
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The Solid Signal Blog is your resource for over 17,500 articles and reviews, with new content coming every day. 2017 marks our eleventh year since our humble beginnings, and today over 200,000 people read the blog every month. We're proud to boast over 13,600 registered members. (Are you one of them?)

Every month, the staff gets together and gathers articles from six months past that really seem like they have long-term appeal. Here's the list for April, 2017:

Believe it or not: In 1978, nearly forty years ago, you could shop from home, check stock prices, get news, make plane reservations, even send messages to other online users. The only hitch: you had to be in France.

First things first... you can get a USB hub from Solid Signal for a very low price. And I'm not saying you shouldn't get one of those. I'm saying that it's not going to give you everything you want out of life.

If you're seriously going to use a USB hub, you are going to to two things
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Call it a slow news day. I got this press release from AT&T and I figured I would share it with you. Randall Stephenson is "the top person" at AT&T, and anytime he speaks, he's going to make some sort of wave, even if it's not a very big one. This time tomorrow he'll be speaking at something called the "Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference" which sounds like a great excuse for very wealthy people to get together and use all sorts of acronyms none of us understand.

But hey, if you're bored you might want to check it out. I'll share the press release with you all and you can see if it's your cup of tea. Nice thing is... it's free, at least to listen. I have to imagine you'd pay a lot if you actually went.

AT&T will webcast a presentation by Randall Stephenson, AT&T Inc. chairman and chief executive officer, at the 26th Annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York City on Tuesday, Sept. 12. The event is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. ET.

The webcast will be available live and for replay at AT&T Investor Relations. We recommend viewers start the webcast a few minutes before the planned start time in case the conference schedule changes.

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